RUSH: The “conservative movement,” quote-unquote, has always been thought of to be a specific, certain thing with membership of specific, identifiable individuals. And it was always thought that there was unity within the conservative movement because conservatism is a set of principles and core beliefs and values — and if you ascribe to them, you’re a conservative; if you don’t, you’re not. Well, that isn’t the case anymore.

RUSH: I don’t engage these people doing emotional things, ’cause it’s a total waste of time. All that’s gonna happen is that you upset the very delicate emotional place they created for themselves, where they think they’re doing God’s work.

RUSH: Williams believes that the rise of single-parent families is directly attributable to the creation of the welfare state — the War on Poverty — that the government became the father. The government assumed the financial obligations of the father, meaning the father need not hang around.

RUSH: Everything’s being done here through the lens of the media, and the owners want these pictures of themselves taking a knee, linking with the players. And they think they’re buying something with this. And I don’t believe they are.

RUSH: No longer is this just gonna be a long list of stories that I might mention on the program. Now, you will get specifically the stories that I talk about on the program and a select list of a few others that I intended to get to but ran out of time. It’s going to be more of a real-time base feature rather than just a generic list of places that I go to prep the show.

"I will admit that I tuned in for a quarter last night. I just wanted to see if I could watch an NFL game without all of this front and center in my mind. And I couldn't."

"The Mueller investigation keeps hiring people, and they can’t find a crime. There wasn’t a Trump crime that got the special counsel going. They had nothing but allegations of collusion with the Russians based on a phony dossier put together with Democrat operatives working with the Russians."

"Left-wing politics is not about unity. I don't care what they say, that's not what it's about -- and it's not about equality."

"You hear NFL players say, 'We're brothers; we got each other's backs.' They didn't have Alejandro Villanueva's back Sunday. Now he feels bad that he didn't have theirs. This is not what all of this is supposed to be. This is exactly what it looks like when the disease, the cancer of liberalism infects and corrupts an institution."

"If you try to impeach somebody with positive approval numbers, it matters, 'cause everybody involved in it’s gonna have to run for reelection themselves down the road -- and if they go after somebody with universal popularity or majority approval, it could come back and backfire on ’em."

"A lot of people are apolitical. They avoid politics anyway 'cause they don't like it, but now it is infecting and infesting the National Football League, and it's not good."

"Trump became as popular as conservatives really want to be. Conservatives, I think, would love to have the kind of popularity Trump had during the campaign. But they haven't had it. Reagan did, but there are few beyond Reagan that have."